Tag: Pakistan

Drug-resistant enteric fever, antibiotics and the need for clean water

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Christiane Dolecek, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford & Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

This blog is part of a broader series on drug resistance and its increasing threat to global health. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a critical problem in typhoid fever (caused by ...

A delicate and difficult balance

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine and TyVAC

In December, I dubbed 2019 “a year to celebrate.” TyVAC published promising interim results from the study in Nepal that showed the new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) safe and effective ...

Keep on “swinging for the fences”

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Elena Pantjushenko, PATH

Earlier this year, Bill and Melinda Gates issued their 2020 annual letter—Why we swing for the fences—sharing their reflections on their foundation’s first twenty years. For those of us working ...

New research from Pakistan finds children are protected from typhoid with new vaccine

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Noah Duff, Sabin Vaccine Institute

During the past three years, Pakistan has confronted a devastating outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid to become the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into routine immunization. ...

Leading the way: Pakistan introduces typhoid conjugate vaccine

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Farzana Muhib, Senior Program Officer, PATH

Today, Pakistan made history as the first country to introduce typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its routine childhood immunization program. This is a monumental moment for Pakistan and global typhoid ...

Young boy in Sindh Province, Pakistan, receives TCV at the campaign launch ceremony November 15, 2019.

Gavi: Pakistan Becomes First Country to Introduce New Typhoid Vaccine into Routine Immunization Program

Posted on November 15, 2019 by admin

Press release from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance: Gavi-supported introduction of new and improved typhoid conjugate vaccine to offer protection against increasingly drug-resistant disease KARACHI (15 November 2019) — Pakistan today ...

Children play in a street with an open drain in Pakistan. Photo: Raja Khalid Shabbir.

“A wake-up call”: A surgeon raises his voice for typhoid conjugate vaccines

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Dr. Raja Khalid Shabbir

Dr. Raja Khalid Shabbir is a resident in surgery at Holy Family Hospital (HFH) in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, just outside of the capital city of Islamabad. HFH is a government-run teaching ...

How Pakistan’s new generation of disease hunters helped expose XDR typhoid

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Laura Kallen

The outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in Pakistan has now been going on for more than two years. As is the case in most low- and middle-income countries, Pakistan ...

Sequencing a superbug: How typhoid became extensively drug-resistant

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Gordon Dougan and Elizabeth Klemm, Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge Department of Medicine

The bacteria that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella Typhi, is a smart one. We know this because our laboratory has been sequencing the DNA of S. Typhi strains that infect people ...

Newly-prequalified typhoid conjugate vaccine used in outbreak response

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Hannah Bassett, Sabin Vaccine Institute

Health officials and local researchers have launched an emergency vaccination campaign to stem an outbreak of ceftriaxone-resistant typhoid in Hyderabad, Pakistan. The outbreak has sickened more than 800 people since ...

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